The Japan Times67%
Cannabis use grows among young people in Japan, especially in Tokyo 73%
By No Author44%
6/2/2026, 7:43:00 PM
Topics: Cannabis Abuse, Youth Crime
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 86 hits. Analysis detected 448 faulty-reasoning hits from 86 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.4% and a BS Rank of 73% (5,901 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.00% of the article peer group.
Cannabis use is becoming widespread among young people in Japan, especially in Tokyo.
In 2025, people in their 20s and younger accounted for more than 70% of all those taken into police custody or otherwise processed in cannabis-related cases, pushing the total to a record high.
Roughly one in six of the cases was dealt with by the Metropolitan Police Department, underscoring the scale of the problem in Tokyo, Japan’s capital and busiest urban center.
Confirmation Bias
38.4%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
15.1%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
15.1%Representativeness Heuristic
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15.1%AuthorNo Author
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
61.6%Framing Effect
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61.6%AuthorNo Author
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
33.7%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
51.2%Negativity Bias
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51.2%AuthorNo Author
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
38.4%Recency Bias
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38.4%AuthorNo Author
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
33.7%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
27.9%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
38.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
33.7%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
33.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
100%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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86 words analyzed.
Analysis
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